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It would appear that on Jul 17, Scot L. Harris did say:
Are you running a screen saver when it locks up? There is anecdotal
evidence that some of the GL screen savers will cause some systems to
lock up.
In support of that "anecdotal evidence" I'll tell you that I had similar
problems under FC2. At least while running both a screen saver & the
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 kernel.
I have been running this same PC, with the same internal hardware, as a
multi-boot machine since I it came with Win98se & SuSE 7.3
pre-installed. I currently have 4 linux installed, including FC1 with
the vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl kernel and FC2 with vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435
I have also run MDK 8.2, & 9.1 Plus redhat 9.0 & slackware 8.0. not to
mention mepis & knoppix3.4...
And the ONLY time I experienced random lockups was with FC2 using the
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 kernel _AND_ a screen saver.
Before I upgraded the kernel (or rather allowed yum to...) I solved the
problem by going to the screen saver settings and unchecking the "Start
screen saver automatically" check-box, and poof, my lock-up problems went
away... Then after a while I turned it back on. and again started
experiencing the random lock-ups... I then gave up on the screen saver
until I accepted the vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 kernel. Which hasn't given me
a single lockup while my current "rapid motion"->laser screen saver is
enabled... (course, I heard that most of the screen saver related tales
turned out to be a system using an OpenGL screen saver, and made a point
to not select one of them this time around)
I wouldn't rule out a hardware, or cooling issue, but turning off the
screen saver for a while is a real cheap test.
To the OP, Good luck
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